arts and culture
‘Dashcam’ review: MAGA, anti-vaxx rhetoric smother this found footage horror film
June 2, 2022I don’t think you have to love, or even like, a main character in order to enjoy a film. But in this case, neither the main character nor the film satisfy.
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New opera ‘I Can’t Breathe’ centers murders of Black American males
May 20, 2022“It would be impossible to find a more relevant topic for contemporary theatre,” wrote Arts Knoxville when I Can’t Breathe received its first production back in February.
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‘King Lear’: The monarch from another planet
May 19, 2022Of the countless screen versions of King Lear, the most offbeat may be Jean Luc Godard’s 1987 take co-starring Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, and The Breakfast Club’s Molly Ringwald as Cordelia. I kid thee not!
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De los servicios sociales a las artes, comunistas chilenos impulsan su sueño
May 19, 2022A continuación, el segundo artículo sobre el reciente viaje de un grupo de comunistas estadounidenses a Chile, un país donde la izquierda es una fuerza crucial en la gobernabilidad del país. El grupo es parte del...
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ICYMI: May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and Marx
May 18, 2022May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and the anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. So I am left with this difficult impasse: between the two fundamentals, what to do?
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